Adult Program: Rare, unseen and banned cartoons for adults highlighting each of the 7 deadly sins! John K. introduces each cartoon and confesses the sin that inspired it. At the end of the program, he will invite certain lucky fans from the audience to join him in sin.

Children's Program: Gross but pure and Christian, child-safe matinée of rollicking cartoons for the children and celibate alike.

Besides the San Francisco event, I am SO EXCITED about the Ren & Stimpy Lost Episodes DVD coming out on July 18th! These past few days have been driving me CRAZY! I can't wait for this DVD! I can't wait to see all the aired and unaired episodes, the bonus material and the hiddin extras A.K.A easter eggs. I hope it aint so hard to get to the easter eggs. Anyway, I bet you will be showing the APC R & S cartoons at the San Francisco event right? You should make a new SPUMCO DVD with all the cartoons you made that were banned. SPUMCO is the coolest animation studio EVER!

Man, John K., I hope nobody said this before, but... Why the hell don't you make a friggin adult toon movie?!?SOMEBODY's gotta want to produce it! I would sure as hell plunk down $10 to go see 6 twelve minute George Liquors spun into a feature!

Dicking around with the internet is all fine and dandy, but you gotta push push push to sell - and I'm sure the returns aren't what anyone hopes they would be.

Don't retain too much of a Quebec attitude; (I was born and lived mostly in Montreal)man, swallow a little pride and get your feature movie made and do it on time - show 'em john K. is THE man for animation!

I highly recommend going to this show. I went to John's last show in Santa Monica, and it was the best! Being in a theater full of people laughing at grade-A cartoons is my ideal idea of the ultimate fun. John gives you your money's worth every time.

John, Ill talk to the head of the animation dept. tommorrow to see what needs to be done to get your ass to Chicago! I couldnt figure out my space or I would have left you this message there.. If you want to shoot me your email so I can give it to the dept. head, im sure something can be worked out. Thanks John.. rmguimond@hotmail.com or through my blog.

I hate you. For all of your atistic goodness and my lack of ambition to put in the time and effort to refine my ability to draw cartoons. I hate you.I. . .lissen, man, I'm sorry. I didn't meant that, that's just the jealousy talking.I love you, John K. Now come over to the Eastern seaboard where people like me can appreciate you and not have to pay the airlines in first-borns to come and see a real man's cartoonist and his work!

Ren is definetely male. Stimpy can be both male and female. The only constant about him is that he is a cat...of sorts. He has testes in his muzzle and a mouth in his nose..blah. Sorry I even brought it up, I was being sarcastic anyway.

yayayyayayayyayay! i knew if i waited long enough something special would happen up here in SF... i mean besides all the other stuff. maybe you can come to the blues club i work at and watch all the tourists dance like retards, its so worth it.

This man needs to be banned from the media. He is corrupting the morals of society. He is influencing the new generation into becoming perverts. He is spawning a new breed of rapists and drug addicts. Go to his presentation and protest.

Hey John! Great news! I talked to the dept. head today and he said that they are looking for a speaker to come to the Illinois Institute of Art! Send me your email so I can give it to him. Or I can give you his if you want. Either way he was all about it. rmguimond@hotmail.com

I dunno. It's from the Rip-along segment at the end of the show. The hot dog and bun are fighting because hotdogs come in pack of 6 and buns are in packs of 8 and they can't decide who should change. Rip comes in and settles the score.

Was there a gag cut out of the Hotdog and Bun scene from The Ripping Friends? Because when the Hotdog & Bun huged the screen fades to black. I'm sure that something had to have been cut. Also it would be nice to see the complete series of The Ripping Friends on DVD in America.

The Butcher said:"That's from the Ripping Friends. It's a hotdog and a bun."Then Max Ward said:"Is it on the DVD? I have the DVD and I don't remember that."

It's on the Australian DVD (along with all 13 of the original episodes). I think yours might be the American version, with only the episodes The Indigestible Wad, The Infernal Wedding, Flathead's Revenge and Frictor. It seems ironic that the Aussie version has the complete series, yet it never was broadcast down under (as far as I am aware).

Jesse Oliver said:"Was there a gag cut out of the Hotdog and Bun scene from The Ripping Friends? Because when the Hotdog & Bun huged the screen fades to black. I'm sure that something had to have been cut."

I remember that, though I suspect that John intended the screen fading to black bit to be a gag in itself, a bit of mock-censorship as if to say "We'll leave the rest to your imagination!"

I remember first reading about them in Wild Cartoon kingdom (I still have Rip and Crag on my Spumco Secret Membership cards years before the show aired!) and they were supposed to be the cartoon for men. They turned out to be the Saturday morning kid's show and Ren and Stimpy (originally a children's program) wound up being the cartoon for men. How do you feel, John, about how backwards that ended up? I know you really don't like the way Ripping Friends turned out, so do you think it would have been better as an adult oriented show, or are you just disapointed about the crappy production?

Ripping Friends bgs aren't the worst ever, even if they have significant problems.This guy did some RF bg layouts, as seen on his CV page:http://www.dobidy.20m.com/photo4.html(also see the Ripping Friends section at the link on my name for a couple more I acquired from him)

He's big into Rocket Robin Hood (Bakshi worked on it, it was produced in Canada, it had the look of late '60s Marvel, and it was purportedly big in Canada), and I conjectured a couple of years ago that John would therefore have been exposed to it in vast quantities and that the show was likely a deep seated scarring experience for him, and as such it was the granddaddy of the Ripping Friends. Stephen Worth said "quite so" at the time, but I wonder if John would like to expand on that...

I think RRH is or was on that "Worst Cartoons of All Time" slate at the San Diego Comicon, but I think that's unfair (in the same way Ed Wood movies are unfairly characterized that way as movies); it's an amazing thing to watch in its own way. Each episode has an embarrassingly large amount of material repeated in every episode (long opening, middle and end bits, as I recall).

Off topic, but you know what I always thought was funny about the Ripping Friends? How "the forces of Jesus" who were working against you thought you were trying to make a serious PC super hero show and not a comedy/satire type of show.

I love how instead of the relationship of The Ripping Friends and Jimmy the Idiot Boy seeming funny and weird it seemed like some kind of politically correct acceptance message.

And then on top of that, sometimes Spumco would shine through the mold of the show. Really confusing.